Harnessing Consumer Power: Using Certification Systems to Promote Good Governance explores how certification mechanisms that have been used previously to promote environmental and social sustainability can be applied to advance transparent and democratic government processes, reduce corruption, and promote peace. Certification systems may be designed to directly cut off major sources of revenue for armed conflict or to indirectly improve
environmental and social sustainability such as ecotourism certification. Highlighting the current international certification systems for “conflict diamonds” and “conflict timber,” this report provides observations and recommendations for how certification can be most effective....
